Κυτέριον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κυτέριον, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν τῇ μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυτεριώτης. δύναται καὶ τῷ τῆς χώρας ἔθει Κυτερῖνος.

Kyterion: a city of the Oinotroians in the interior. Hekataios in his Europa. The ethnonym is 'Kyteriotes'. It can also, in accordance with the local usage of the country, be 'Kyterinos'.

Text Details

Entry#299
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 399.4 · Billerbeck Κ299
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count18
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 69
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚυτέριονKyterion · place
ΟἴνωτρεςOenotrians · people
ΕὐρώπηEurope · place
ΚυτεριώτηςKyteriotes (inhabitant of Kyterion) · people
ΚυτερῖνοςKyterinos (demonym) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear Metalinguistic"Kyterion: a city of the Oinotrians in the interior. The ethnicon is Kyteriotes. It may also be Kyterinos as the adjective for the country.": This passage gives the ethnic forms and the city's affiliation but does not state an origin for the place-name.

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Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.365
char LCS 47 (47.5%) · word LCS 8 (44.4%)
Stephanos
Κυτέριον, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν τῇ μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυτεριώτης. δύναται καὶ τῷ τῆς χώρας ἔθει Κυτερῖνος.
Herodian
…νεται, ὀψάριον, οἰνάριον, ἱππάριον, φυτάριον καὶ σουδάριον, κελλάριον ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων διαλέκτου ἐκτεταμένου τοῦ 'α'. Ὁμάριον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν καʹ. Μαρμάριον πόλις Εὐβοίας. —περιστέριον, διφθέριον. Κυτέριον πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν τῇ μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Κιέριον· οὕτως Ἄρνη πόλις Θεσσαλίας καλεῖται. Κρασέριον Σικελίας φρούριον. Φίλιστος ὀγδόῳ. Ἀμέριον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἐλευθέριον πολίχνιον Μυσίας. ἀστέριον καὶ Ἀστέριον πόλις Θετταλίας. Ὅμηρος «οἵ τ´ ἔχον Ἀστέριον Τιτάνοιό…

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